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Our plate is full. We have a lot to do building our company organically and that is our key focus.
Jamie Dimon
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Jamie Dimon
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: March 13
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Part of [Japanese companies] growing and expanding around the world is ... going to help the Japanese keep their lifestyles [despite Japan's] demographics, as a declining population, and [to] make it more conducive to women to go to work, I think, is a plus.
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JPMorgan Chase are among the most successful global investment banks, most successful global asset managers, and, in the United States, one of the most successful retail and commercial bankers. We do a great job for customers.
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More people are working, lending is up and savings are up. These are all positive signs for a strengthening economy.
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People always say to me, What if it doesn't work? If it doesn't work, we redouble our effort. We're not going to cry like a bunch of babies. We're going to redouble our effort.
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If I ran the whole place like it was my way or the highway, we would not be as good a company. I'm going to have mistakes - they'll be made on my watch and will embarrass me. But I'll also make sure the company learns from them so it can become a better company.
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And if you're going to be a leader, you know what I ask myself? Would I want to work for you in this job? Would I let my children work for you? Would I give you this job if I wasn't there to provide oversight? If you went to run another company, would I, as an investor, invest in that company?
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It might be harder for us to charge a higher interest rate, like they do, so it might not be as profitable for us. But we can either compete or partner, like we've announced with On Deck, which does some of the stuff we just spoke about.
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We do all that [ represent companies], because we have a lot of research in Japanese companies, and that research educates investors around the world. It allows us to sell stocks and bonds in Japanese companies.
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We invested in the downturn and we never stopped serving our clients.
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I also believe that most of the emerging economies have a fairly large amount of foreign exchange reserves, relative to 10 years ago.
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Capping the size of American banks won't eliminate the needs of big businesses it will force them to turn to foreign banks that won't face the same restrictions.
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Dodd-Frank is 2,000 pages long. It covers thousands of rules, regulations, interpretations and things like that.
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I believe it's a good thing that people say, Can we find a way to live together in peace? And they did, for the most part.
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But in general, as countries get wealthier, there's going to be more savings, which means you're going to have intermediation. So part of it is just the huge growth in wealth, and part of it was globalization - these companies, these clients getting much bigger and much more global.
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Prime Minister Modi [Narendra] is strong enough, and he's accomplished much.
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It can take a long time to get the rules in place that are conducive to growing, sometimes.
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Their [American banks] big issue will be if they want to deal with the biggest companies, which are doing a lot of business overseas. How they do that is a big question. It's almost impossible to build a global investment bank from scratch. If they want to do that, they probably will have to do an acquisition.
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We had a lot of gridlock on a lot of issues. But, the American system is pretty resilient.
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We, Americans, have the best country on the planet. We have schools, universities, food, water, energy, peaceful neighbors, low corruption, you name it, deepest and widest capital markets. That doesn't mean we shouldn't identify problems. We don't have a divine right to success.
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It's good for America when the rest of the world grows, because you can sell more to the rest of the world.
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